Bible Dictionary
ENORMITY
A term for wickedness, especially shameful or immoral conduct. In the Law it can refer to unnatural wickedness, including incest.
Definition
Enormity is a term for wickedness, lewdness, or shameful conduct. In the Levitical passages it denotes especially unnatural wickedness, including incest.
Biblical Usage
The term appears as a marginal or revised rendering of “lewdness” or “wickedness” in Hosea and Leviticus. In the Levitical contexts it concerns prohibited sexual wrongdoing.
Historical Background
It represents the Hebrew word zimmah, originally related to thought or plotting but chiefly used in a bad sense for lewdness and wickedness.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>e-nor'-mi-ti:</p><p>The marginal rendering in the King James Version of Ho 6:9 for "lewdness," and in the Revised Version (British and American) of Le 18:17; 19:29; 20:14 for "wickedness." In each case it is the translation of zimmah, meaning originally, "thought" or "plot," mostly in a bad sense, lewdness, wickedness; in Le it is unnatural wickedness--incest.</p>